Sometimes when explicit reasoning and intuition conflict, intuition turns out to be right, and there is a flaw in the reasoning. There’s nothing wrong with using intuition to guide yourself in questioning a conclusion you reached through explicit reasoning. That said, DragonGod did an exceptionally terrible job of this.
Yeah, you’re of course right. In the back of my mind I realized that the point I was making was flawed even as I was writing it. A much weaker version of the same would have been correct, “you should at least question whether your intuition is wrong.” In this case it’s just very obvious to me me that there is nothing to be fixed about utilitarianism.
Sometimes when explicit reasoning and intuition conflict, intuition turns out to be right, and there is a flaw in the reasoning. There’s nothing wrong with using intuition to guide yourself in questioning a conclusion you reached through explicit reasoning. That said, DragonGod did an exceptionally terrible job of this.
Yeah, you’re of course right. In the back of my mind I realized that the point I was making was flawed even as I was writing it. A much weaker version of the same would have been correct, “you should at least question whether your intuition is wrong.” In this case it’s just very obvious to me me that there is nothing to be fixed about utilitarianism.
Anyway, yeah, it wasn’t a good reply.